The pressure on Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign was today reaching fever pitch with speculation that the New York Congressman could be gone from the House by the end of the day.
Democratic colleagues were beginning to realize he is a lost cause and starting to line up to tell him it is time for him to go as the embarrassments just keep piling up.
A Georgia gym teacher was outed as Weiner’s fifth sexting partner, he admitted that he had taken X-rated pictures of himself as one leaked online and even his ex-girlfriend Fox News analyst Kirsten Powers said he had to go immediately because of his “sociopathic” lying.
“Anthony Weiner lied to the country about his sexual misconduct online. He also lied to me,” Powers wrote on The Daily Beast. “I had been defending him, based on what he told me, but no more.”
Powers and Weiner dated for three months in 2002-03 and have remained friends since. Powers said that when the scandal first broke he had explicitly told her that the now-infamous “bulging underpants” picture was not him, knowing that she was going to appear on Fox News’ Sean Hannity Show and that she would defend him. “I did and I regret it,” she said.
“As I have recovered from the shock of seeing an old friend’s life unravel and have had time to get my mind around the extensive and sociopathic lying in which he engaged, there seems to be no other choice than for him to step aside and stop hurting his family, friends, and the Democratic Party,” Powers added.
“As more information trickles out about his online behavior with women, it has also become clear that he does not have the character to be in a position of leadership because of his misogynist view of women and predatory behavior.”
What should have been one of the happiest times of the Congressman’s life with news that his wife Huma Abedin is expecting their first child, was instead one of the most miserable as Weiner had to come to terms with the implosion of his political career.
Democrats piled on as they realized that supporting Weiner was a lost cause. They were led by Pennsylvania Rep. Allyson Schwartz, a member of the party campaign committee’s leadership. "In light of Anthony Weiner's offensive behavior online, he should resign," she said.
Five other House Democrats – Mike Ross of Arkansas, Michael Michaud of Maine, Niki Tsongas of Massachusetts, Larry Kissell of North Carolina and Joe Donnelly of Indiana – and Senators Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Mark Pryor of Arkansas had joined the clamor for him to go by Wednesday night.
Former party chairmen Ed Rendell and Tim Kaine – who is running for the Senate in Virginia – have also said he should step down.
On the GOP side, House Leader Eric Cantor has also called on him to quit while former Presidential candidate Donald Trump called his actions “suicidal.”
“He’s obviously very disturbed,” Trump told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. “Maybe he has a death wish.”
Weiner’s official position is that he will stay in Congress, but the pressure continued to pile up with a series of further embarrassing revelations. Weiner was forced to admit that he had sent explicit photos of himself as an X-rated picture of a man’s genitals hit the Web.
Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart had vowed not to release the picture but he showed it to Sirius XM radio hosts Opie and Anthony, one of whom snapped a picture of it and posted it online. Breitbart said he was “mortified” by the leak. “This is a complete breach of our arrangement that the photo would not be made public," he said.
As if that wasn’t enough, the name of a fifth woman involved in the sexting scandal – Traci Nobles, a blonde 34-year-old PE teacher from Athens, Georgia – became public. Her roommate sent details of a Facebook conversation with Weiner dating from August last year to the Las Vegas Sun.
The Sun said Nobles and Weiner called each other “sexy” and “sugar” and seemed to be trying to arrange a meeting for the next day. The paper said it was unclear whether that meeting was to be online or in person.
And to add to Weiner’s troubles, Genette Cordova, the 21-year-old Seattle journalism student who was the recipient of the original “bulging underpants” shot that started the scandal, told the New York Times that Weiner had sent the picture out of the blue during a Twitter conversation about politics.
“It didn’t make any sense,” Cordova said. “I figured it must have been a fake.”
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